Comments on: What’s Even Worse than an Escape from New York Remake?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:30:56 +0000

Tom Hanks was in as many bad films as Michael J Fox. The success of an actor has a lot to do with LUCK or perhaps a good agent. I always think there are quite some great actors being underrated simply because they weren’t lucky enough to be in great films. Oh well …

Teen wolf is certainly NOT MJF’ second biggest film in term of either boxoffice or film quality, although It might be his second most influential film among teenagers. In the late 80s and early 90s, MJF had several comedic hit films (Besides BTTF triology) which generated better boxoffice income than TW. He also had a few damatic films which received good reviews from movie critics but didn’t do very well in boxoffice. By the way, do you know MJF was viewed as one of top 5 perfomers in Boxoffice by the movie theater managers in 80s? I read this a few weeks ago on a movie database site.

Almost every actor, including the greatest ones, had down period somewhere in their career path. MJF’ down period in his movie career came in 90s. As talented as he is, he should’ve been able to break out from the dark period had he been healthy. Unfortunately for MJF, his parkson disease was diagnosed at the same time when his career took a downturn. The disgnosis completely changed his career path and altered his perspectives on life.

By: Attmay

Attmay — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:21:17 +0000

Gee, I can’t wait till the Zapped! remake hits the screen.

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:02:42 +0000

Could be worse. They could be re-doing American Werewolf in London. WAIT! That would be better.

Let’s hope they don’t remake Teen Wolf Too! That would be terrible. Or make a 3rd Teen Wolf movie, Son (or Daughter) of Teen Wolf. Yikes!

By: Mr. Atoz

Mr. Atoz — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:13:49 +0000

I overreached myself there, Angie, but it’s nice to see someone caught it.

By: Angie Schultz

Angie Schultz — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:17:41 +0000

As Enrico Fermi once said: “Who ordered that?”

It was Rabi, not Fermi, but good use of obscure allusion there.

By: Mr. Atoz

Mr. Atoz — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:39:52 +0000

I liked Michael just fine as Alex Keaton, and he was perfectly watchable on Spin City. (So was Heather Locklear, for that matter.) But he never quite made the transition from television to movies. Teen Wolf might have been his second-biggest film, and that's not exactly a Tom Hanks kind of resume.

By: Fiddle Dee Dee

Fiddle Dee Dee — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:22:10 +0000

Oh Good Lord…

Hollywood is remaking…get ready…Teen Wolf. I wonder if they’ll have another guy showing off his willy at the end of the movie. You know, like in the first one…….

By: Agent Bedhead

Agent Bedhead — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:37:08 +0000

Michael J. Fox was actually really good on “Spin City” if you ever caught it. I never saw Charlie Sheen’s run on the show because I kinda stopped watching regular television at that point, but MJF was amusing in the role the exasperated deputy mayor of NYC.

Also, Alex P. Keaton – I had such a crush on that little Republican hottie.

As far as Teen Wolf goes, it doesn’t offend me as much as the action movie remakes. It couldn’t be worse than Teen Wolf Too….poor Jason Bateman.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:28:25 +0000

What’s worse? Hmmmm…well, all those cartoon adaptations they’ve made recently? In about 15 years when Hollywood is ever further out of ideas, they will begin remaking them. If the first “Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” wasn’t a sign of the apocolypse, a remake of it surely has to be.